Slate Roofing Contractors Association

of North America, Inc.

LATEST NEWS:

We will again have a double booth at the IRE in Nashville, February 11-13, 2019. Book your flights and hotel now! We will be having our annual members meeting as well as a board meeting there during the expo.

SRCA board and committee meeting, April 21, 2018

Four SRCA board members (Chris Paulin, Nick Price, John Mahan, and Korby Grist) met at the Grove City office for a general board meeting and a education and training committee meeting. Also present was Orion Jenkins, Jenkins Slate Masters Inc.

SRCA at the IFD in VIENNA, October 2017

Four members of the SRCA Board of Directors, Gary Howes, Korby Grist, John Mahan, and Nick Price, plus Executive Director Joe Jenkins, and members Henry Mitchell and Ed Stinson, attended the 2017 International Federation for the Roofing Trades Congress in Vienna, October 19-21. Expenses were paid by the individuals at no cost to the SRCA.

SRCA In CHINA, May, 2017!

SRCA Executive director Joe Jenkins and SRCA member Orion Jenkins (JenkinsSlateMasters.com) attended a booth on behalf of the SRCA at the 2017 Roof China Expo in Guangzhou ("gwon-joe"), China, May, 2017. Both members attended at their own expense. On display were slates from three Chinese Hubei Province slate quarries (gray, green, and black slates), which the men had visited before the Expo. Thanks to Ken Rule of Vermont Slate for helping with the arrangements for the slate quarry tours! Ours was the only booth at the Expo to have any natural roofing slate on display.

What we found on this trip was that most Chinese slate is exported, domestic use is minimal, and knowledge about correct installation is almost nonexistent. There is a need for slate roof installation training in China and potentially a large market for roofing slate if trained installers are available. We also found language barrier problems (almost no one spoke English at the Expo), and although we didn't have anything to sell from our booth, we did introduce the Chinese to slate roofs via our screen display, which showed about 90 photos of roofs, tools, SRCA events and related subjects in a constant rotation, all day. We talked with passers by from about a dozen different countries, all interested in slate roofing.

We are deeply indebted to Chen XinGuo, General Manager of Wuhan Longxin Slate Company, for taking us to the three quarries, paying virtually all of the expenses (he insisted), and helping us out every step of the way. Unfortunately Chen could not attend the Expo with us.

SRCA meetings and board elections took place during the IRE on Thursday, March 2nd, beginning at 8:30 am, at the Tropics B Room in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Our booth at the trade show was #2571.

Western Pennsylvania.

SRCA Attends NERCA in CT, March, 2015

Chris Paulin of The Paulin Slate & Copper Co., and Chris Short and Dave Armstrong of Short Slate, Inc. manned the double booth for the SRCA at the 2015 NERCA 89th Convention & Trade Show. They did live slate installation demonstrations during the show to promote the SRCA Education & Training Program and to attract new members.

The SRCA had a booth at the March, 2013 NERCA convention in Boston. Shown above is board member John Mahan. Unfortunately, the postal service lost our banner when we shipped it up to Boston, so we had no banner to mark our booth! That could be why John looks a little forlorn.

IRE 2013 - Wagner Roofing Recieves Awards

SRCA's Wagner Roofing was honored at the 2013 International Roofing Expo in San Antonio by the National Roofing Contractors Association with two Gold Circle Awards, the industry’s highest honor, as well as the Gold Circle Platinum Award for the most superior overall project. Chuck Wagner is an SRCA board member.

Conference 2012: The small building above was roofed in a German-style slating method by Chris Short's team at Short Slate, sided with a bear design by Liam Tower (pictured above) of Slate Affair, Inc., and had copper gutters installed by John Crookston of Upright, Inc. More pictures are on the Conference 2012 page.

John Stortz (below left) was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 SRCA Conference. Liam Tower won the Members Choice Award for Best Slate Roofing Project of 2011:

Standards Committee Refines Slate Roof Installation Standards

The SRCA Standards Committe met over the weekend of June 23rd, 2012, in western Pennsylvania for the purpose of refining the installation standards for natural quarried roofing slates. Present were Barry Smith, Chris Paulin, Liam Tower, John Crookston, Chuck Wagner, John Mahan, Joe Jenkins and Gary Howes. Two sets of standards were published:

Liam Tower (left) of Slate Affair, Inc., VP of the SRCA, has received an International Federation for the Roofing Trades Award in "Pitched Roofing," presented to four finalists in Dublin, Ireland, November 4th, 2011 at the IFD Congress. Austria won first place. Take a look at the entry form. Liam's work on a bell-shaped slate roof certainly deserves recognition. There were 18 submissions from 9 countries in this category. Read the announcement from the IFD here.

Letter to SRCA members from Liam Tower expressing gratitude for the IFD experience and recommending that we establish formal slate roofing education in the United States. Read the letter.

The SRCA, a non-profit trade association, was established
on March 1, 2005. It is established as a non-profit corporation organized exclusively for charitable purposes as defined by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Its purpose is to promote the slate roofing trades, including, but not limited to, organizing slate roofing tradespersons; promoting the training and education of slate roofing contractors in traditional slate roofing practices; and pursuing the interests of slate roofing contractors in developing appropriate standards, practices, methodologies, educational materials and networks.

SRCA LOGO

Can be downloaded by members on the member download page (requires user name and password). The SRCA logo is a membership identification mark and its use to represent anything other than membership is expressly forbidden. Use of the logo in no way constitutes SRCA approval of any contractor, product, methodology, or technique. Compliance with SRCA Slate Roof Installation Guidelines is not indicated by the presence of the logo on a member's website or literature. All SRCA contractor members are strongly encouraged to be familiar with and comply with the SRCA Slate Roof Installation Guidelines.

INTERNATIONAL NETWORKING

SRCA is a member of the International Federation of Roofing Trades!

IFD is the worldwide highest body representing the interests of the Roofing Trade, with 17 full members, 1 guest member, 24 partner members and 4 Co-operating partners (including the SRCA) from a total of 23 countries. The representatives of IFD are cooperating particularly in Europe in the bodies of CEN, EOTA, NORMAPME and UEAPME. IFD is acknowledged worldwide. IFD is regularly present on international trade fairs and congresses in Europe and the United States of America.

SRCA members contribute
voluntarily to the 2005 International Preservation Trades
Workshops at Belmont Technical College in St. Clairsville,
Ohio [above]. Camara Slate Company generously donated the slates for the roof.

CONTRACTOR PROFILES

Contractor members
join the SRCA via an application process
that allows for a Contractor Profile to be created
and posted on this website with links on our Members
page and on our Contractor
Directory.
We list such things as whether the contractor has insurance,
how many employees they have (if any), how many years
they've been in business, what percentage of their
work is slate roofing (and if they do other types of
contracting, what sort of additional contracting they
do), what their physical working range is (i.e. how
far they will travel), and other criteria important
to the client or customer. All contractor members agree
to a Code of Ethics

JOIN THE SRCA

Anyone can join the
SRCA as a Supporting
Member. Other membership categories include Affiliate
Member for those who
are not contractors, such as quarriers, marketers, architects, conservators, preservation
professionals, engineers, etc. The Roofing
Contractor Member category is for roofers who don't specialize in slate and the Slate
Roofing Contractor category is for roofing contractors who do specialize primarily in natural quarried slate roofing. Please JOIN us
today! Or call us at 814-786-7015.

Contractor and Affiliate members are entitled to be listed on any of our source lists.